On a rainy night in Lihua, an orphan girl Xie Yunli was forced to marry into the Shen family in Jiangnan for her sister.
She thought she was just a pawn used by the Shen family to pay off old debts, and she just wanted to find her late mother's belongings and leave. But on the night of the wedding, the sickly young master Shen Yanchu handed her an unsealed letter of divorce, leaving her dignity in the cold rain in the courtyard.
Shen Yanchu hated the Xie family and her mother.
An old embroidered handkerchief, a pear blossom silver hairpin, and an old letter that had been hidden for many years revealed the grievances between two generations. Yunli guarded her innocence in the cold eyes, approaching and retreating again and again due to misunderstandings; Shen Yanchu also saw in the scent of medicine on the bed and the wind and rain of the old house that she was not the shadow of a substitute marriage, but Xie Yunli, who had a name, a surname, a heart and a heart.
But when the truth gradually emerged, they discovered:
It was not the Xie family who owed their lives back then, and it was not her mother who took the blame.
A substitute marriage brings up the old debts of two generations; a piece of paper letting go of one's wife can't break the deep love for half a lifetime.
When the pear blossoms fall, she will no longer be a substitute or a chess piece.
When spring comes again, she will walk into the old house again with only her own name.
Purpose: Love is not about trapping a person, but is still willing to set her free even when it hurts the most. The deepest lock in the old house is not the door lock, but the truth that the previous generation refused to tell. The woman who is used as a substitute can also live as her own name.